Are People Eating Bats Causing the Coronavirus?

Outrage on social media is being directed at ordinary Chinese people who enjoy eating the winged creatures, because of the information that the new coronavirus shared a strain of virus found in bats. Accusations have also been made that this is an attempt to suppress the truth by the Chinese government about a biolab opening in Wuhan where the virus originated, with the world’s most hazardous viruses, before this outbreak made its way into the U.S.

In some places in the world, eating bats is illegal due to the danger of zoonotic diseases.